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April Schantz; Holly Handley – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) project team was pivotal in creating a framework and gathering data on high-impact practices (HIPs) to enhance student engagement in learning nationwide. Student engagement in HIPs is a vital institutional performance metric closely linked to strategic objectives and state-level funding. To maximize…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Practices, College Seniors
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Seda Abacioglu; Büsra Ayan; Dragan Pamucar – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
This study investigates the evolving landscape of green universities by analyzing and comparing rankings from 2018 to 2022. It expands beyond the single score offered by the UI GreenMetric, employing Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques to evaluate universities from diverse perspectives. Focusing on the top 50 universities from 2022,…
Descriptors: Universities, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Reputation
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Shinji Katsumoto; Lisa Nakahara; Nicholas A. Bowman – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
While serving as a benchmark of 'world-class' universities, the global university rankings do not include the vast majority of universities. However, "Times Higher Education" developed a Japanese national university ranking table in 2017, which includes approximately 40% of all Japanese universities. This increased coverage of…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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George Leckie; Richard Parker; Harvey Goldstein; Kate Tilling – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
School value-added models are widely applied to study, monitor, and hold schools to account for school differences in student learning. The traditional model is a mixed-effects linear regression of student current achievement on student prior achievement, background characteristics, and a school random intercept effect. The latter is referred to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Value Added Models, Accountability, Institutional Characteristics
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John Hansen; Amanda Nemeth; John Stewart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Curricular analytics (CA) is a quantitative method that analyzes the sequence of courses (curriculum) that students in an undergraduate academic program must complete to fulfill the requirements of the program. The main hypothesis of CA is that the less complex a curriculum is, the more likely it is that students complete the program. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Christopher G. Reddick; Branco Ponomariov – Quality in Higher Education, 2024
Higher education is often framed as a means to social mobility and increased earnings. However, the value of university education in the United States is coming under scrutiny in regard to its costs. This article examines a university education's return on investment (ROI) from attending different types of universities in the United States. Unlike…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education, Research Universities, Institutional Characteristics